May 18-August 18, 2024

Griffin Art Projects presents The Prop House: A Collection of One Million Objects from May 18–Aug. 18, 2024. Co-curated by Lisa Baldissera and Paul Wong, the group exhibition features new works by Bagua Artist Association, Cathy Busby, Germaine Koh, Parvin Peivandi, Jay Senetchko, and Charlene Vickers — in addition to images by photojournalist Jason Payne. Each artist has created an artistic response to the extraordinary collection of Mount Pleasant Furniture (MPF), a legendary film prop house that has become a cornerstone of the film industry in Vancouver. 

A family-owned and operated business in the heart of the Mount Pleasant warehouse district, MPF is a diverse collection of over one million antique and vintage objects stored in two multi-level buildings–a labyrinth of 35,000 square feet, crammed from floor ceiling with furnishings, objects of art, paintings, textiles, sculpture, figurines. The collection has been accumulated by three generations of the Madsen family and has been used in set designs in the Vancouver film industry over the past 40 years. Leslie Madsen continues to live in the 1911 building that she owns and has raised her family in, and her son now manages the day-to-day operations. 

The Prop House exhibition presents the work of six Vancouver-based artists: Cathy Busby, Germaine Koh, Jason Payne, Jay Senetchko, Charlene Vickers, Parvin Peivandi and Bagua Artist Association.